Thanks for the information. Maybe I need to rephrase the question. Since they practice the Pyong Ahh forms, do they do them well? I am asking people who also still practice and use these traditional forms on a regular basis. I couldn't care less about organization affiliation, or if they practice "real chungdokwan" or not, it doesn't matter.

I'll take a look at the videos and get back to you.

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I'm not impressed. At all.

For one, they don't even know the name of their forms, calling Pyeongan "Pyon", etc...

I just viewed their channel. In the one video that is displayed, it looked like each one was racing to get the form done before everyone else, which resulted in the shortcomings Der enumerated in his post above.

Perhaps its an odd drill or some kind of weird warm up???

I certainly won't pass judgment on the org based on it, but my observations were about the same as Der's.

I thought the same thing. So I brought this up to one of the guys I know that practices. He said that they try to put as much speed and power into their forms as if it was an actual fight. But they seem to sacrifice their technique for the sake of speed.

I just viewed their channel. In the one video that is displayed, it looked like each one was racing to get the form done before everyone else, which resulted in the shortcomings Der enumerated in his post above.

Perhaps its an odd drill or some kind of weird warm up???

I certainly won't pass judgment on the org based on it, but my observations were about the same as Der's.

Daniel

Originally Posted by Student4Ever

I thought the same thing. So I brought this up to one of the guys I know that practices. He said that they try to put as much speed and power into their forms as if it was an actual fight. But they seem to sacrifice their technique for the sake of speed.

I remember discussing this on Warrior-Scholar several years back.

They think that by dancing their forms in such a manner they are mimicing the way they would actually do the moves in a fight.

However, as we can see from the videos, it results in shitty, uncoordinated technique, with zero coordinated power, etc.

Not to mention the complete bullshitification of the actual point of form training and ignorance of the bunkai of the Okinawan forms.:new_2guns:thefinger

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